You can now book direct flights to Australia
If the long, long journey and nap-halting layovers put you off visiting Australia, we’ve got good news: you can now get a direct flight from London to Perth. That doesn’t quite fix the whole long journey part, but it does take some of the hassle out of travelling to Oz. No more sprinting between gates or - worse - killing hours in duty free when you have no money.
Quantas started selling tickets for the first non-stop journey to Perth this weekend, but you won’t be able to travel on the route until March 25, 2018. Still, if you do get a ticket, a single journey will take 17 hours to complete, cutting out the three hours you would usually spend going through Dubai en route.
Alan Joyce, chief executive of Quantas, said: “We’ve said the Qantas Dreamliner is a game changer, and that’s becoming real today.
“The kangaroo route has kept changing with new technology. It used to take four days and seven stops, but now we’re able to link Australia and UK in a single hop. It’s a level of convenience Australians have never had before.”
Australians and Brits. We’re all for making travel time shorter, wherever we’re going.
Once passengers arrive in Perth, they will be able to transfer to other parts of Australia like Melbourne, which will cut their journey time to these destinations, as well.
Still, as with all flights to Australia, you’ll need to fork out a hefty sum to board this plane. A return ticket starts at £1095. Get saving.
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